{"id":2135,"date":"2018-03-29T06:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T18:09:45","slug":"balancing-jellybeans-on-golf-tees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/29\/balancing-jellybeans-on-golf-tees\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Jelly Beans on Golf Tees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent practice in fine motor control and one to one correspondence<\/p>\n<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Golf tees in a small bowl<br \/>\nJellybeans in a small bowl<br \/>\nPiece of styrofoam<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Invite your child to poke golf tees into the styrofoam and then carefully place one jellybean on the top of each golf tee. Count the golf tees and the jellybeans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Extension for Preschoolers:&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nSort the jellybeans by colors<br \/>\nMake patterns using the jellybeans<br \/>\nPractice addition and subtraction (3 red and 2 blue make 5 jellybeans)<\/p>\n<p>This activity provides excellent fine motor practice and one to one correspondence practice, placing one jellybean on one golf tee.<\/p>\n<p><b>Variation<\/b>: Use marbles instead of jellybeans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent practice in fine motor control and one to one correspondence Materials Golf tees in a small bowl Jellybeans in a small bowl Piece of styrofoam Directions Invite your child to poke golf tees into the styrofoam and then carefully place one jellybean on the top of each golf tee. Count the golf tees and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/29\/balancing-jellybeans-on-golf-tees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balancing Jelly Beans on Golf Tees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}